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Complexity
What do a babbling brook, a bustling city, and the human brain have in common? Maybe nothing. Or maybe they share some underlying mathematical elegance. That's what researchers who study the emerging field of complexity aim to find out. In this hour, we'll look at some model systems and ask whether they reflect reality....and whether complexity is all it's cracked up to be.
Guests:
Stuart Kauffman
Author, "At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity" Professor, Santa Fe Institute
Santa Fe, NM
John Holland
Author, "Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity"
Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Peter Coveney
Author, "Frontiers of Complexity: The Search for Order in a Chaotic World"
Sr. Research Scientist
Schlumberger Research Laboratory
Cambridge, England
John Horgan
Author, "The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age" Senior Writer
Scientific American
New York, NY
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